Sewing-machine cabinet.



T. KUNDTZ. SEWING MACHINE CABINET. APPLICATION FILED APR. 13. 1916.

Patented Oct. 23,1917.

LEQSJMAQ fi ii nefises 'lI-IEODOR K'UNDTZ, OF LAKEWOOD, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TOTHE TEEODOB KUNDTZ COMPANY, 01? LE EL N {Q A GQl5I B i TI0N OF OHIO.

SEWING-MACHINE canr nnr;

. Application fi crl p i11 ,1. 16. Sciia1No.90,968.

ing-Machine Cabinets; and I hereby de.-' clalre the following to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertain to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in sewing machine cabinets, and pertains more especially to a cabinet of the character indicated in which two laterally spaced and laterally facing wooden side sections are em ployed in supporting the top. of the cabinet and the treadle of the operating mechanism of a sewing machine.

One object of this invention is not only to avoid the employment of metal legs or standards in supporting the treadle and-the top of the cabinet, but to render the aforesaid wooden side sections simple and strong in construction and to efliciently and 'inex-' pensively brace them apart at or adjacent the axis of the treadle.

Another object is to utilize one and the same metal bar in supporting the treadle and in tying together and bracing apart the aforesaid wooden side sections.

Another object is to provide said bar with means adapted to afford bearing to the treadle and to have said bar contoured as required to avoid interference with the operation of the treadle.

Another object is to apply said bar to the aforesaid side sections in such a'manner as to avoid unduly weakening said side sections, and to facilitate an accurate positioning of said bar relative to said side sections preparatory to securing said bar in place.

'With these objects in View, and to the end of attaining any other advantage hereinafter appearing, this invention consists in certain features of construction and arrangement and combinations of parts hereinafter described in this specification,pointed out in the claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.-

In said drawings, Figure l is a front elevation of the sewing machine cabinet. Fig. 2 is a right-hand side elevation relative to Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectlon on Specification o t er l ten V ratemea 05cc. as, raw.

line 88, Fig: 1. Fig. 4 is a vertical section on line l' l, Fig. 3.

My improved sewing machine cabinet comprises two laterally spaced and laterally facing wooden sid esections, andeach of said side sectionscomprises a laterally facing wooden panel a 'andtwo vertically arranged wooden legs or posts-A located at the rearward edge and forward edge respectively of said panel and adapted to'rest on the floor. The'rearward posts of said side sections are joined together by a wooden panel B which ex-- tends between said posts and is secured to said posts in any approved manner. The panel B forms the back of the cabinet and braces apart the rearward posts of the hereinbefore mentioned side sections.

The'cabinet' comprises a horizontally arranged top frame C applied in the usual manner atjthe topof the cabinet and shown resting on the posts A and also upon the panels a, and said panels and the back 13 of the cabinet preferably extend downwardly from said frame, and theopening 6 formed centrally of said frame'and: shown in dot-' orrro.

D shownhinged, as at d, Fig. 1, to'theleft}:

handend of said frame. I v v p E (see Figs. 3 and 4E) indicatesthe treadle of the operating mechanism of a sewing ma-j chine, which treadle has an arm 7 at which thetreadle is adapted to be operatively connected in the usual manner by a pitman'(n0t shown) with the driving-wheel (not shown) of said mechanism.

The treadle E is arranged between the lower portions of the side panels a and supported from a metal bar G. Preferably the lower portion of each side panel a is provided at its inner side with a wooden reinforcing piece 8 secured in placein any approved manner, and the bar G extends be tween the reinforcing pieces of the side reinforcing pieces in place; Said bar has its central portion extending substantially horizontally between the lower ends of the end members of the bar, and said central portion of the bar is arranged at the under side of and spaced from the treadle. To facilitate an accurate positioning of said bar relative to said reinforcing pieces preparatory to securing the bar in place, each end member 10 of the bar is provided at its upper end, as shown in F ig. 4, with a laterally and outwardly projecting flange 11 which is seated on the bottom of a recess 9 with which the adjacent reinforcing piece 8 is provided. It will be observed therefore that the side sections of the cabinet are provided with inexpensively formed seats for the flanges 11 of the end members 10 of said bar.

The lower or inner end-portion of each end member 10 of the bar is substantially vertical as shown at 12, Fig. 4, and spaced from the wooden side section to which said end member is secured, and the treadle is arranged between the inner end-portions of the two end members of said bar.

Preferably, as shown, the treadle E is pro vided with two laterally spaced upwardly projecting lugs or members 13 arranged at opposite side edges respectively of the treadle, and the bar G has its central portion extending endwise of the treadle at the under side of and spaced from the treadleand has its two upwardly projecting end members 10 arranged the one at the outer side of one of said lugs or projecting members of the treadle and the other at the outer side of the other of said lugs or projecting members, and the substantially vertical lower or inner end-portion of each end member of the bar is provided with a horizontally arranged pin H which projects into the adjacent upwardly projecting lug or member of and affords bearing to the treadle and is in line endwise with the corresponding pin of the other end member of the bar.

I would also remark that the cabinet is illustrated as comprising a door I arranged at the front of the cabinet, which door is between the lower ends of the end members of the bar, the inner end-portions of said end members of the bar being far enough apart to permit the arrangement of a treadle between them, each of said end members of the bar being provided at its upper end with a laterally and outwardly projecting flange, and the wooden side section adjacent'said flange being provided with a seat for said flange.

In testimony whereof, I s1 gn the foregoing specification, in the presence of two witnesses.

THEODOR KUNDTZ.

lVitnesses:

HENRY BREES, B. C. BROWN.

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